Overview of the iPlant Collaborative

The iPlant Collaborative is an NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure project (#DBI-0735191/#DBI-1265383). iPlant provides services for life science researchers, computational biologists, software developers, and educators working in all domains of life, enabling them to understand and make increasingly powerful predictions about biological systems. iPlant's mission includes empowering discovery at multiple levels, from making bioinformatics applications accessible to the “average bench-biologist” to enabling big-data science that would not otherwise be possible. iPlant successfully operates a platform of integrated technologies and computational resources that provide access to large data storage, high-performance computing, grid computing, and cloud computing. These resources are made available to scientists by providing access at multiple levels including application programming interfaces (APIs), RESTful services, and web-based systems for data access, tool integration, and analysis. We will discuss emerging community partnerships, opportunities for collaborating with the iPlant project, and exciting new features for end-users and application developers. Register for your free iPlant account at user.iplantcollaborative.org.